Cabbage soup without potatoes: recipes

Cabbage soup - one of the traditional Russian dishes, which are usually cooked with fresh or pickled cabbage, less often with sorrel or nettle. Most often they put potatoes in a dish, but this was not always the case. Classic Russian cabbage soup was cooked without it, you can see this if you find old recipes in which a complete set of products includes: cabbage, meat (less often mushrooms or fish), roots, spices and sour dressing (brine, Antonov apples, sour cream). True, sometimes turnips or rutabaga were added. Thus, cooking soup without potatoes is quite normal, and it turns out no worse. Consider recipes!

Classic daily cabbage soup

These cabbage soup are prepared with meat and sauerkraut, the amount of which depends on the desired density. They don’t put potatoes in them. For 400 g of sauerkraut, the following ingredients will be required:

• 500 g of beef with bone;
• three liters of water;
• two onions;
• two carrots;
• two bay leaves;
• celery or parsley root;
• four peas of black pepper;
• sour cream for serving;
• salt.

Cooking cabbage soup without potatoes:

1. Rub meat, scrape, put in a pan with a thick bottom, pour water, add one onion, celery root, one carrot.
2. When the water boils, reduce the gas and cook for 2-2.5 hours. Remove foam periodically. Half an hour before the end of cooking the broth, put pepper and bay leaf, but do not salt.
3. Peel and chop onion and carrots in oil. Then send sauerkraut to the pan. If it is acidic, rinse first. Stew the vegetables until they are soft - about 25 minutes.
4. Get onions and carrots from the broth - they are no longer needed.
5. Remove the meat, remove from the bone and cut into slices, then return to the pan with broth and salt.
6. Put the contents of the pan in a saucepan and cook over medium heat for ten minutes.
7. Cool ready-made cabbage soup without potatoes and remove for a day or only night in the refrigerator.

The next day they need to be heated and served with sour cream.

If possible, freshly cooked cabbage soup should be poured into clay pots and refrigerated. The next day, take out the pots, cover each with a layer of dough and send to the oven to heat - the readiness is determined by the test: if it is baked, you can remove it.

Cabbage soup without fresh cabbage

For those who do not like sourness, a recipe with fresh white-headed vegetable is suitable.

The following ingredients will be required:

• 500 g of white cabbage;
• one carrot;
• two onions;
• one zucchini;
• two tomatoes;
• 2.5 l of meat or chicken broth;
• salt;
• greens.

Order of preparation:

1. Grate carrots on a coarse grater, chop the onion into small cubes, finely chop the cabbage.
2. Pour the broth into the pan, put on the fire. When it boils, toss carrots into it, then onions and cook for five minutes.
3. Then send cabbage into the broth, followed by zucchini, diced, cook for seven minutes.
4. Salt the cabbage soup, then add the diced tomatoes and cook for another seven minutes. Seasonings can be added if desired.
5. When all the vegetables are ready, mix cabbage soup, turn off the gas.

Let the dish brew for 10-15 minutes. Serve cabbage soup without cabbage with bread and fresh herbs. If desired, you can add sour cream.

Conclusion

Cabbage soup without potatoes can be lean and meat. They can be cooked with beef, pork, chicken, mushrooms, even fish. Instead of potatoes, you can put beans, zucchini, pumpkin, turnips or cereals, for example, barley.